3. WWII Valor in the Pacific NM
Hawaii California
USS Arizona Memorial Tule Lake Segregation
Pearl Harbor Visitor Center
Center
Battleship Row Mooring Alaska
Quays
Attu Island Battlefield
USS Oklahoma
Memorial Kiska Island Japanese
Occupation Site
USS Utah Memorial
Atka Island Crash Site
6 CPO Bungalows
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15. WWII Valor In the Pacific NM
Theme is “Engagement to Peace”
The time is WWII—actually 1920 thru 1952
Not a “Real Estate” National Park site
Emphasis on Partnerships
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16. Pearl Harbor Historic Sites
WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument
Bowfin Submarine Museum and Park
Pacific Aviation Museum—Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Battleship Missouri Memorial
US Navy
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22. Site Statistics
1.7M Visitors in CY11
$3.5M ONPS
$600K-900K Aid to NPS (PHP)
$150K In Kind (PHHS Partners)
$25-250K General Donations
45 NPS Employees, ~100 Partner Employees
150 Commercial Partners
1/3 of Oahu Visitors (~8M in 2016)
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24. Other NPS WWII Theme Sites
War in the Pacific National Historical Park
American Memorial Park
Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National
Historical Park
Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial
Manzanar National Historic Site
Minidoka National Historic Site
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Joshua Tree National Park
George Washington Memorial Parkway
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27. WWII Valor in the Pacific
National Monument
www.nps.gov/valr
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U.S. Department of the Interior
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Editor's Notes
VALR stretches from Alaska to California to here in Hawaii. The stories are all connected—not a lot of land, though!
Why so many different places? What do the three areas talk about?
The Alaska sites represent the Japanese occupied areas of the United States during the Pacific War. This picture is from Kiska. See how foggy? Really confusing. Japanese bugged out and Americans invaded (lots of friendly fire). Japanese also bombed an adjacent island, but hit their own soldiers. All that was left were dogs and brewed coffee.
July 1943, when 12,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from other camps and sent to Tule Lake because they were declared disloyal. They were deemed so-called disloyal because they were unwilling to swear to the Loyalty Oath, which required them to be willing to serve in the US military, give unqualified allegiance to America, and forswear any allegiance to the Japanese Emperor.
Hawaii is the place where the United States officially entered WWII—by being attacked on 12/7/1941 by Japan.
Note vessel and oil
Point out vessel
A column for each of the 429 sailors and marines who lost their lives.
The neighborhood was a battlefield
Mooring quays are reminders of the battleships that most thought were the cutting edge of military technology…But aircraft carriers from Japan proved that the age of the battleship was over.
Our new visitor center will welcome1.7 million visitors each year. 58M + 8M = 64M1/3 NPS1/3 USN1/3 Partner
Display to the public important artifacts from our past such as this bloodied sailor’s uniform.
Things to remember about National Park sites… they always have a reason to exist…
Pearl Harbor SurvivorsWitness to History programs Japanese Fighter Pilot Association
RichardThill, from St. Paul, was on the USS Ward…the first US naval ship to fire upon a Japanese submarine…all just prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. He is one of your own. Get to know him and learn about what he has to say from that day. It is our nation’s history to cherish or to lose.
